Innovation Pharmaceuticals Inc (IPIX)

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"It seems there may be unknown genetic or other factors that make some more susceptible especially the healthy young people who succumb quickly and the resistant older individuals with multiple risk factors who barely get sick.

It would make a good research project."

I'm sure there are many attempting to piece the puzzle together.

I read, a week or two ago, that virus's thrive on elevated blood suger(hyperglycemia). I could not confirm it. What did make sense is that diabetes has been listed as not a good thing to possess if one becomes infected with covid 19. Neither is heart disease and a couple other ailments which are ensnared by diabetes.

Being a type 1 diabetic for over 40 years(pretty could control for t1d, a1c low 6's(which is HIGH for the general public)), I did a little research and discovered that blood sugars rise as people get older.
"RESULTS—In the FOS and NHANES cohorts, A1C levels were positively associated with age in nondiabetic subjects. Linear regression revealed 0.014- and 0.010-unit increases in A1C per year in the nondiabetic FOS and NHANES populations, respectively. The 97.5th percentiles for A1C were 6.0% and 5.6% for nondiabetic individuals aged <40 years in FOS and NHANES, respectively, compared with 6.6% and 6.2% for individuals aged ≥70 years (Ptrend < 0.001). The association of A1C with age was similar when restricted to the subset of FOS subjects with NGT and after adjustments for sex, BMI, fasting glucose, and 2-h postload glucose values.

CONCLUSIONS—A1C levels are positively associated with age in nondiabetic populations even after exclusion of subjects with IFG and/or IGT. Further studies are needed to determine whether age-specific diagnostic and treatment criteria would be appropriate."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2551641/

The advancements in blood sugar control have moved astronomically in the past few decades. Diabetes, mainly via out of whack blood sugars, can stress the body/organs. I wonder, if elevated blood sugars do feed covid 19. Perhaps "a trial could be experimented with in hospitals on covid patients to maintain blood sugars at the safe, but lower ends(70-90 mg/dl), to starve the virus?

Just thinking.